According to Florida’s Department of Health, Bartow is one of five cities in Polk County that still add fluoride to drinking water, along with Auburndale, Haines City, Lakeland, and Lake Alfred.

It’s a unique opportunity to explore a little piece of Bartow’s history with a lover of all things historic homes. The Wonder House is open year-round with a variety of different tours and events.

A Polk County deputy and a Bartow police officer are injured after a Fort Meade man opened fire outside Bartow Lowe's on Good Friday evening.

Florida lawmakers have yet to publish the budget’s full details. It includes a two percent raise for some state employees. It also devotes hundreds of millions to pay down state debt.

Lance Reynolds is a general assignment reporter for the Boston Herald. A Mansfield native, Lance launched his full-time reporting career at the Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn. He ...